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Converting dynamic SVG to PNG with node.js, d3 and Imagemagick
Visitors to Wealthfront might notice we’re using SVG to render the risk meter in our questionnaire, as well as your performance projection and other charts. We build our visualizations using d3.js, a fantastic library that provides just the right amount of abstraction on top of SVG to allow us to develop robust visualizations quickly. SVG… Read more
Our CEO Andy Rachleff talks about VC, entrepreneurship and Wealthfront at Dec 8th 7pm in SF Stanford Alum Club
Check out Andy Rachleff, our awesome CEO, who will speak at the Stanford SF Alum Club tomorrow night. He’s going to talk about entrepreneurship from three perspectives, developed through his career as a long-term venture capitalist at Benchmark Capital funding technology start-ups, as a lecturer teaching entrepreneurship at Stanford Business School, and as the CEO… Read more
Interesting Reads
We’re going to try something new, a roundup of interesting links that are being passed around by Wealthfront Engineers. A brief history of digital typefaces Language / Library / VM co-evolution in Java SE 8 by Brian Goetz A javascript type inference engine Alan Kay on complexity in software and how biology might help us,… Read more
Siri for Continuous Deployment
It’s late on Friday afternoon, we’ve just finished an important marketing release (not a deployment which happen about 50 times a day) and playing with Siri ignited an interest in making our Deployment Manager respond to voice commands. Luckily x-webkit-speech makes that easy. Obviously the big demo here was going to be deploying services based… Read more
Happy Birthday, Wealthfront!
A year ago we rang the bell at the NASDAQ in Times Square and invited you to join us in a new way to invest your money. We’ve been pretty quiet lately while we’re working on the next thing we know you’ll love. Stay tuned in the coming weeks as we start to give you… Read more
Type safe JQuery with ST-JS
At Wealthfront some engineers believe that “A well-typed program never goes wrong” and that’s why we like statically typed languages (we mainly use Java for our back-end). We also appreciate the expressiveness of dynamically typed languages and the power of functional programming (we use JRuby and Javascript in the front-end). Scala and Clojure seem to be good candidates… Read more